but you guys still you look good you don't look that different to how you did right at
the beginning you know like you must have people on your your if you're on facebook that in your
year at school you think jesus christ tom stay here you're like an old fella is there a key to
this i used to say welsh water i mean when i go back home and see my mates from school
um tell me don't be your mates anymore i mean they've lived the life that's what it is
it's home time on a friday is honor to welcome to the show uh the legends that are kelly and richard
from the stereophonics guys welcome hello how are you we're good good we're good how are you guys
very good very good nice to be out is it do you enjoy doing it i mean obviously you have to speak
to chumps like me and richie you know obviously new album out and all that kind of do you enjoy
that side of it or is it one of the worst bits doing the kind of the press call well
the record i keep i keep thinking the records out it's been so long hanging on the shelf so
um i needed a bit of convincing to let me know that it wasn't out yet no it's nice to come and
speak to whoever to be honest after the last few years yeah it's good fun just being out of any
building it's nice to get out in it you're not short of songs on the album 15 tracks you're not
sewing up after 25 years no well we didn't mean to make an album we went in to find a couple of
songs for like uh maybe a 25 year compilation record how do you make an album by mistake
well we started looking through songs that we unfinished or not released because i never
really think the songs have been old or new songs because they're always gonna be new by
the time they're releasing some songs they don't fit on the project you're working on
and then they kind of go on to the next one you know i i kind of see him as you know a team of
or a squad of some players sitting on the bench and they're waiting for their moment to shine
um i think the thing we're all dancing around at the moment is is actually pronouncing the album's
title which i'm a little bit scared i thought she might do the first time i was going to copy him
where did that come from what is that i don't know it's a senseless word
i thought there's going to be some kind of like there's a meaning and stuff in about
2004 when we were making the album dakotas on i remember writing the word oochia on a bit of
tape on the desk and i've probably wanted it to sound like ray winston or fall well in my head
and i completely forgot about it and then um i thought a rolling stones guru and aerosmith pump
and green day dookie and i thought all these senseless words because i thought
it was going to be like some sort of compilation record but it became
a compilation or a great set of songs but they're all new songs instead of uh
catalogue oh wow and in terms of you know we've been talking about uh lockdown and all that kind
of stuff uh i put kelly i put your voice in the same category say liam gallagher's voice kind of a
night out voice which is fantastic it's beautiful loads of depth to it all that kind of thing but
liam has changed the way that he sung is up to protect his voice as his career has gone on
uh how have you have you had to adjust the way the way that you sing because you give it all when
you perform live how do you protect the voice like that you just have to put more work into
it unfortunately there's a lot more prep you know when i was younger i would stay up all night then
if i could my full set that worked in the morning i felt i was much fit for the night ahead but now
there's a lot of preparation involved to actually do the show so yeah you know you're playing two
and a half hours on stage now with 12 albums worth of material and they're all very very different
vocally so because i i read that you were doing the whole i've seen liam gallagher do it as well
he was like blowing a straw into like bubbling liquids you mean that it strengthens the muscles
in your throat without straining them before they're ready to it's a bit like warming up before
we go for a run yeah we should do that before the show we should get on the bongi he looks like
so the kids walk in the room i'm like it's not what you think it's not it's not what you think 25
years quarter of a century do you like sometimes when you when you say that you get daunted by
the amount of time that has actually been passed now and that you've been doing this
yeah it is when you look back because you we're always moving forward we never kind of look back
at what we've done in the past until somebody kind of brings it up and that's when you go wow but you
can't not bring up 25 years that's i mean you've you guys would have seen bands come and go and
and here you still are it's a great thing i mean we're really fortunate we've been in a band
since we started really then everybody genuinely gets on yeah and we go out for a point now we
you know we work hard together we go out and have a good time together you know it's it's
pretty rare to be honest not most most bands don't um they start off that way but then it all kind of
falls apart but we what's this what's the slippery slope with that because people start to get their
own is it like own dressing rooms own trailers or like when do you start to kind of you know
diverge well some of them travel completely separately different hotels different buses
different buses oh yeah yeah i mean we've all been on the same bus you know we we stay in the
same hotels you know we we race every week all the boys in the crew have been with us for 25 years
take turns being shotgun at the front yeah exactly yeah you know what you have to remember is being
on stage the two and a half hours but the other bit is living with each other so that's probably
more important than the actual performing in many ways you know i remember when we were
kids people say the stones have been together for 20 years do you think 20 years it's a long time
but you guys still you look good you don't look that different to how you did right at
the beginning you know like you must have people on your your if you're on facebook
that in your year at school you think jesus christ tom stay here like an old fella we
do that once a week yeah do you mean we always look at this like you're letting the side down
but you both look is there a key to this your success
i used to say welsh water i mean when i go back home and see my mates from school
um tell me don't be your mates anymore i mean they've lived the life i think that's what it is
and one of the songs of the album right place right time i was listening to that felt like
unless my math was wrong i think you talked about three girlfriends in one song i did yeah
which is brave i don't think that's ever been done three girls one song yeah i didn't realize that
i'd finished it it's a beautiful song it's so personal yeah i mean it's a song that kind of
came about from i don't know where i was walking all day that day from i was down the king's road
i think i just had my first corvid job and i was walking looking for some artwork inspiration in
the sachi gallery and i was walking up the street it was one of those hot days we had in the summer
and i ended up on a roof terrace and when i was having a drink and i was just writing verse after
verse and i suppose if there's any song on the album that's it's not about the pandemic but
it's about reflection from the time you have in a pandemic i guess it's a song kind of saying
how did i get here really so it's about those stepping stones in destiny and serendipity you met
one person that got you to the next person i mean i could still be there right there no you know i
mentioned a few people in there but it could be going on forever but how many girls is it kelly
i don't mean the kids okay i also thought one box i always tell my man cause a boxing referee
it he slightly ruined it obviously we talked about the lock down and people
developed uh you know hobbies and and you know what's the most uncool thing
both you guys are into i don't mean uncool and kind of weird but i mean in terms of like
untrendy people wouldn't know about you painted the garden get pink
did you i do yeah i quite like pink that's nice nice color for it i started doing the wordle
thing did you which i don't think is very rock and roll but richie does a word challenge i do
do wordle let's go into a little wordle uh mine here do you feel that it's got harder over the
last couple of weeks because i certainly do i only started in the last couple of weeks
i'm going to reverse go backwards so he painted the garden fence you're into wordle
yeah i suppose the most rock and roll thing is just being family and here being the father and
you know but aside from that i've never really had all these i've always been just i've done
my music i've done the family that's probably but as far as i go do some training and all the
rest of it punch a bag in the garden a punch bag not the bin bag i have kicked the bin a few times
is that euphemism yeah kicked the bin a few times yeah the album's amazing if if you people
are thinking wrong and i've listened to that tonight when i get home what one thing would
you like to take away from the new album well it has got 15 songs on and i've never really been
that indulgent with a record choice before but it was two years of no music and it was going really
good in the studio so i think the album is very very eclectic it's a bit like a compilation it's
a bit like a mixtape so one song is not going to give you what the album is it's very all over the
place so is that hard these days there was a spotify when people just pick a song out like
you know you have an album like start middle and end and you work that through like a set list
yeah i guess it's different now doesn't it right well this is a bit like i mean i can't
not do records like that i still pick side one and side two and all that you know we'll start
you know i just think of everything as back in black side one's got to start with elle's bell so
he's gonna start with back and back you know and if you've got more than our songs and then you're
in trouble then you're gonna try to do it twice i think the song the songs hold up you know like by
themselves as well which is really good and like when they do go on these various playlists that's
that's when they'll stand the test of time as well yeah mick jagger came in the dressing room
that's like we were doing the stones gig and he started he went up to richard's wife and he said
here you sing her and she goes no you don't sir you know i said make us rich's wife oh i'm sorry